Russia is denying involvement in hacking internal communications at the departments of Treasury, Homeland Security and Commerce; Benjamin Hall reports.
Thomas Bossert, former Homeland Security adviser to President Trump, in a Wednesday op-ed said there is evidence that Russia is to blame for what he called a brazen cyberattack on software company SolarWinds through cybersecurity company FireEye.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the foreign cyberattack involving SolarWinds Orion products, which is now under FBI investigation, on Sunday and directed all federal agencies to inspect their networks.
A U.S. official told the Associated Press that Russia is a suspect in the attack that began as early as March. Russia denies any involvement.
By Lauren C. Williams
Dec 09, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency has refreshed its three-year strategy to better emphasize cyber defense, the role of cloud and enterprise services. Because of the planning efforts we undertook in 2019, DISA was able to turn on a dime to support the Department of Defense and the whole-of-government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Navy Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, director of DISA and commander of Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network. But we had to accelerate implementation at a very rapid pace.
Technology solutions, such as the cloud-based internet isolation (CBII) browser, that emerged from the pandemic response are now foundational to DISA s strategy, which aims to provide a framework for what and how the agency acquires products and services in the coming years.